Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 14 provides a wide variety of perspectives on both traditional and more recent views of Earth's resources. It serves as a bridge connecting the domains of resource exploitation, environmentalism, geology, and biology, and it explains their interrelationships in terms that students and other nonspecialists can understand. The articles in this set are extremely diverse, with articles covering soil, fisheries, forests, aluminum, the Industrial Revolution, the . Department of the Interior, the hydrologic cycle, glass, and placer mineral deposits. . | 100 Belgium Global Resources percent for a total of about million. This industry began in Belgium in 1807 when the British started a blockade of cane sugar from the Caribbean during the Napoleonic Wars. With cane sugar unavailable beet sugar began to be the sugar of choice throughout Napoleonic Europe. The sugar production capital of Belgium is Tienen which hosts a large sugar-beet processing factory that was founded in 1836. This factory and related sugar production facilities owned by the Raffinerie Tirlemontoise Group employ nearly two thousand people. This company owns three other Belgian sugar factories in Brugelette Genappe and Wanze. Beer Monks in Belgium began brewing beer sometime during the Middle Ages. There are more than one hundred breweries scattered throughout Belgium with about eight hundred standard types of beer produced. These range from light through dark types of beer Belgians brew and export nearly ever y type of beer possible. Often each type of beer is ser ved in its own distinctive glass which is said to enhance the flavor of that particular type of beer. Though Belgium is famous for many kinds of beer it is possibly most famous for lambic beer which is made in an ancient brewing style. This style depends on a spontaneous natural fermentation process after ingredients are exposed to the wild yeasts and bacteria native to the Senne Valley located south of Brussels. This unusual fermentation process produces a drink that is naturally effer vescent or sparkling which is then aged up to two or three years to improve its taste. Much like champagne only produced in a certain region in France or Madeira only produced on a certain island owned by Portugal the title of lambic beer can only be given to this type of beer brewed in the small Pajottenland region of Belgium. Nearly half of the beer brewed in Belgium is exported mostly to Canada France Germany Italy Spain the United States and the United Kingdom. Chocolate During the seventeenth .
